Pakistan seeks national support against Taliban
CNN International – USA
By Ivan Watson ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government convened a meeting on Monday of nearly all of the country’s political parties, …
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/
05/18/pakistan.politics.mobilization/

Pakistan press hopes for peace after India vote
AFP
Pakistan and India began a slow-moving peace process in February 2004 which ground to a halt after New Delhi blamed the Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5i91OxC0p1sTFaqlITmVcoX8kw6cw

Report: US to capture Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile if extremists …
Ynetnews – Israel
American intelligence sources tell Fox News commando unit prepared to secure Pakistan’s mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads if it seems country on verge of …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3717431,00.html

Foreign investment in Pakistan down 42 percent
Reuters – USA
KARACHI (Reuters) – Net foreign investment in Pakistan fell 42.7 percent to $2.21 billion in the first 10 months of the 2008/09 fiscal year compared with …
www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSTRE54H0U420090518

Battle in Pakistan Scars Region
Wall Street Journal – USA
By ZAHID HUSSAIN BUNER DISTRICT, Pakistan — The Pakistani army says it is making progress against the Taliban in this district 70 miles from Islamabad, …
online.wsj.com/article/SB12426029574
4628487.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Pakistan Calls on Taliban Militants in Swat to Lay Down Arms
Bloomberg – USA
By Khaleeq Ahmed May 18 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan called on Taliban fighters in the northwest to lay down arms as “intense” fighting erupted between the army …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601091&sid=aqnZ11gPcTLw&refer=india

Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, US Says
New York Times – United States
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/world/asia/18nuke.html?hp

Pakistan Has Survived Many Trials and Will Triumph
Wall Street Journal – USA
Bret Stephens’s “Pakistan’s Existential Challenge” (Global View, May 12) fails to address a key point regarding Pakistan’s identity. Pakistan has faced an …
online.wsj.com/article/SB124259903624628163.html

Musharraf open to return to politics
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
“I wish the government well and that they must handle Pakistan and take it forward with peace and economic development. If that happens . …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009
%5C05%5C18%5Cstory_18-5-2009_pg7_31

Pakistan’s N-weapons are safe: Obama
DAWN.com – Karachi,Pakistan
By Our Correspondent NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama has expressed confidence that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are safe and said that the Pakistani …
www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/
news/world/12-pakistan-sn-weapons-are-safe-says-obama—bi-13

Bloody Urban Battles Could Lie Ahead in Pakistan – Democratic …
Bloody Urban Battles Could Lie Ahead in Pakistan. … Pakistan has no intention of battling against a force they created, armed, funded and trained …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3881690

Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India: The …
By WILLIAM KERN
In one article, an editorial from Pakistan headlined, Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India, the reasons Pakistan feels so much angst toward Afghan President Hamid Karzai are laid out in detail. …
themoderatevoice.com/32450/karzais-odes-to-pakistan-
come-too-late-to-stop-india-the-frontier-post-pakistan/

US Shares Drone Intelligence with Pakistan | Defense & Security …
WASHINGTON: The top US military officer says the United States has shared intelligence with Pakistan that was gathered by unmanned aircraft flying over.
www.defencetalk.com/us-shares-drone-intelligence-with-pakistan-18964/

India Thinks Pakistan Nuclear Sites Already In Radical Hands …
By national
India Thinks Pak Nuclear Already In Radical Hands.
www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/05/17/india-
thinks-pakistan-nuclear-sites-already-in-radical-hands/

“Pakistan rapidly adding nuclear arms, US Congress told “ Sindh …
By Sindh Today
Washington, May 18 (IANS) Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, members of US Congress have been told in confidential briefings, according to the New York Times. …
www.sindhtoday.net/business/97523.htm